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Our Mission
Getting a Massage to treat yourself is great... but did you know that by having consistent massages there are many health benefits? From increasing focus and easier movements to boosting your immunity, massage services can help you live a happier, healthier and more productive life.
At Graceful Touch Massage our mission is to help you find grace in your mind, body, and spirit. We do this by listening to our clients’ needs and creating customized, comfortable, solutions. This leads to whole body wellness so that you may reach your goals in life without pain, stress, or fatigue.
At Graceful Touch Massage our mission is to help you find grace in your mind, body, and spirit. We do this by listening to our clients’ needs and creating customized, comfortable, solutions. This leads to whole body wellness so that you may reach your goals in life without pain, stress, or fatigue.
Our Massage Specialists
Meet Grace
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Grace Carley, L.M.T. # MA45725Grace is a strong believer in the importance of being the best you that you can be, taking care of the body that you live in and enjoying the time that you have. She understands the importance of taking care of the body and it's muscle through regular "maintenance". She truly values the individual needs of her clients.
Grace started as a chiropractic assistant learning how proper spinal alignment leads to improved health. She also learned how your muscles and their memory can affect your health and improve your alignment experience. This led Grace to became a massage therapist in November of 2005. This beginning gave Grace a better understanding of how your muscles need regular manipulation to maintain overall body wellness. Grace continued her journey and became licensed facial specialist in April 2014. She has learned special techniques and the benefits of facial massage to help her clients' achieve optimum muscle health. She uses customized Botanical Sciences products which help slow down the aging process while giving your skin a glow leaving it looking and feeling beautiful. Grace continues to build her knowledge base to provide her clients the best massage experience! She chooses continued education classes (CEU's) that will bring her clients closer to achieving the quality of life they are searching for and they so rightly deserve. |
Meet Katie
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Katie Frazier, L.M.T. # MA99595Having spent the first part of her career as a middle school Language Arts teacher, Katie has always valued the power of interpersonal communication. However, for the first part of her life, “communication” simply meant words—reading, writing, and speaking. That changed in 2019, when Katie found herself diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and discovered that, in the face of some human experiences, words aren’t enough. In the end, when words failed, it was massage—therapeutic touch— that made the difference in Katie’s own recovery, alongside other therapies that address both mind and body. (It turns out the two are connected. Who knew?)
This experience prompted a flurry of reading, including books like The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk. Through reading about the mind-body connection, Katie came to understand touch as a form of communication—in some ways, perhaps the most powerful form of communication there is. She learned that touch interacts directly with a person’s nervous system, communicating even with those parts of our brains that words can’t reach. Specific, targeted touch can tell a muscle to relax, encourage sleep, or induce the release of neurotransmitters that help a person feel viscerally safe. And, in all the reading, massage therapy came up as a concrete way to help people through skilled, intentional touch. Having discovered this new, powerful form of communication, Katie decided to attend the massage therapy program at Withlacoochee Technical College for its 2021-2022 session. Throughout the program, which contains an additional 250 hours of medical massage-related content, Katie learned how effective, well-designed massage can contribute to both mental and physical well-being. She also gained practical, hands-on experience, working with clients during clinicals to meet specific physical and mental wellness goals. Now, it’s her mission to provide a safe, caring environment for people seeking massage, whether for pain management, stress relief, or overall wellness. As she continues to learn and grow, Katie hopes to help others using the same kind of therapeutic touch that has made such a difference in her own life. |
